Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame2026/05/25 09:20:59A language that ships `.🦌🧪️` source filesThis week's esolang scan (May 15–25, 2026) surfaces three picks from 18 discovered repos: Luguan, a Haskell-compiled language that ships `.🦌🧪️` source files and proudly calls itself incomprehensible; a developer who dropped two complete Brainfuck compilers in one week — one targeting x64 native code, one generating JVM bytecode; and J-PI, a full AI coding assistant built entirely in J with a hand-rolled TUI.
Brainfuck & Friends: Esoteric Programmers' Hall of Fame2026/05/15 16:44:33Doom Runs in 518 MB of BrainfuckThis week's esolang GitHub scan (May 7–14, 2026) surfaces three picks from 14 confirmed repos: BFDoom — a playable Doom port compiled to 518 MB of raw Brainfuck; stark — a REST API framework for Dyalog APL; and a near-complete Funge-98 interpreter built in five days.